Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1887-09-16
FOREIGN.

Bernhardt has lost her voice through a
cold; fears are entertained that her throat is
permanently injured.
The interruption to mails causes much
comment in business circles, and the post
Office department is roundly blamed for per-
mitting a break of nearly week in the in
ternational mail service.
There is a rumor that Dr. McGlynn's case
may be reopened at Rome.
/ The freight department of the Central
! railroad has made exceeding low export rates
on Mexican fruit TO Chicago, Denver, st.
Louis, Minneapolis, Omaha and other west
ern cities. Mexican oranges are of fine fla
yor and good size, and there are number of
varieties of fruit utterly unknown in the
United States which it is believed may be
profitably exported. The freight agent has
made arrangements by which planters can
undoubtedly get good profits. Tho enterprise
is novel and attracts much attention.
With reference to the bench warrant up
piled for for the arrest of boodler McGarigle,
which has been ordered by the Montreal
courts, an impression appears to prevail that
before this warrant can be acted upon it re-
quires the signature of the governor-general.
Such is not the case, as such warrant only
requires the signature of a magistrate of the
province in which the arrest is to be made.
: After the prisoner has been tried under the
extradition treaty and found guilty, opplica-
ton to the Dominion government for the
| governor-generaPs signature for the warrant
of extradition then becomes necessary before
any steps for his return can be taken.
The French mobilization experiment in
spires confidence in the army.
Explorer Stanley was all right up to July
12.
Erastus Wiman has Just ended at Water
| loo, Quebec, a series of meetings for the dis
cusson of a commercial union between Can
ada and the United States. During these
meetings he has addressed nearly 10000 per-
sons, and reports that, Judging by tic eX-
preston of opinion he has encountered, two
thirds of the people of the Dominion are in
! favor of throwing down the customs barrier
| between the two countries, thereby opening
up for the United States free access to the
fisheries, forests and mineral resources which
that country possesses in exchange for the
market which the United States affords for
these and other products.
Able Chabert, an aged priest in Montreal,
is charged with an assault on little girl.
The loss of a vessel with so hands in the
| English channel is reported.
Ship Clyde, from Leith for Quebec, has
been burned at sea. The crew was rescued.
Six persons were killed and eight injured
by dynamite explosion in the custom house
at Callao, Peru.
A letter received at Montreal which pur.
ports to he from McGarigle says that he is on
his way to Switzerland. The letter is dated
Paris, Sept. 2.
German manufacturers Of rolled iron have
founded a syndicate with the object of in.
creasing prices. The combination will begin
operations the 1st of October.
A cable dispatch from London announces
the sudden death in that city of Sir Charles
Young, the playwright and author of Jim,
the Penman.n
Fourteen men belonging to the schooner
Maria Of Pubnico, n S., have been lost in a
storm on the banks.
Herr Most's application to declare his in
tention to become an American citizen has
been denied.
Twenty thousand nailmakers Of Worcester
and Stafford, Eng, are on strike for an adj
vance of 20 to 30 per cent. in wages.
A dangerous and contagious disease is pre-
yailing among horses and sheep in Nova
Scotia.